Improvement in telescopic sights for



eators rl and e, thus securing the desired range justing apparatus and rile.

,UNITED STATES PATENT Erice.

JOSHUA B. \VOOD, OF NORWICH, NEW YORK.

Speciiration Forming part of Letters Patent No. 44.057. dated August 30, '1864.

To @ZZ whom, it may concern: l

Fig. 3 is the tube designed to slide into. the

Be it kuowuthat I, JOSHUA4 B. WOOD, ofi larger tube. (Representedin Fig.2.) This tube the tewn Yot Norwich, Ghenango county, and State ot' New York, have invented a new Improved Telescopi-c Sight for Rifles and other i Small-Arms; vand I herebyv declare that the following isa i'nll and exact description thereof', reference being. had tothe accompanying drawings, and to the letters ot'retercuce being marked thereen.

Figure 1 represents the apparatus complete y as attached to the tail-strap of a rilie, D rel resenting the standard which operates in the tailbandin the ordinary way. Upon this If-tandard, by means of the thumb-screWC, the telescope is raised or lowered at pleasure, while by means'e" 'the thumbscrcwB a lateral or right-and-left motion ofthe telescope lis sccurcd, varying the sight in feet and inches, according to the proposed distance, by indiot' the gun without actual experimenting, which is the distinguishing feature of my iuvention over all others now iu use. a a are spring-slides securing the telescope to the ad is slotted as represented in the drawings at 1 2 3 4, for the purpose of allowing the glasses to be cleaned without their disturbance, this tube being held securelT in the larger tube, Fig. 2, by thepfriction-spring F.

Fig. 4 is the tube, split as represented at f fff, furthe purpose of holding itself to its place in the tube, in the manner of a spring.

What l claim as new and originel in my telescopic arrangement for rifles, and wish to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The xise-and-fallcr irpand-down movement, also the lateral or rightand-left move* ment, combined together, forming a new ar rangement and operating in harmony withA each other, 4for the purposes set forth.

2. The slotted or notched tube E, for the purposes described.

JOSHUAL n. woon. 

